A heads-up to readers: Hold onto a red found object you come across this month to contribute to “Celebration Red,” an installation and performance piece by seminal Fluxus figure Alison Knowles, which will take place May 19 at Carnegie Museum of Art. Ms. Knowles, a poet, visual and performance artist who is now in her 80s, will conduct the suitable-for-all-ages event.
An exhibition representing the breadth of her decadeslong career opens that night and will continue through Oct. 24. Information: www.cmoa.org or 412-622-3131.
Allegheny Center walk
Raymund Ryan, curator of the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art, will lead a walking tour of Allegheny Center, North Side, from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday. The tour will address the center’s exterior and interior, the IBM Building by the office of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Allegheny by architects John Smithmeyer and Paul Pelz, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh featuring the new addition by Koning Eizenberg, and Buhl Community Park by Andrea Cochran.
Mr. Ryan said, “Allegheny Center was once at the forefront of urban thinking. Today it is on the cusp of major renewal. Explore this unique location with its mix of Victorian, modern and future 21st-century architecture.”
The tour is presented by the Office of Public Art. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. To purchase or for information, go to www.publicartpittsburgh.org or call 412-391-2060, ext. 237.
Bondsman turned outsider
The Pittsburgh Premiere of “Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish” comes with a bonus: the opportunity to hear the subject speak afterward with two prominent Pittsburgh artists.
The 74-minute 2015 documentary was directed by William Farley and is part of the 23rd annual JFilm festival. Mr. Barrish was a rough-hewn San Francisco bail bondsman for five decades before he turned to making sculpture out of discarded plastic objects he’d been collecting.
Following the film, the self-taught Mr. Barrish and producer Janis Plotkin will hold a conversation about art with fine artists Clayton Merrell and Carin Mincemoyer, who frequently work in a conceptual vein. I Made It! Market artists will sell their works in the lobby.
The film screens at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Manor Theatre in Squirrel Hill.
M. Thomas: mthomas@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1925.
First Published: April 13, 2016, 4:00 a.m.
